Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Hal Wolf on HIMSS 2023: “It Feels Like We Are All Back.” In a press briefing, the HIMSS CEO said attendance for this year’s event is 35,000 – less than 2019 but a significant increase from 2021 and 2022. Wolf also briefly discussed how HIMSS would continue to invest in emerging markets and build its ongoing relationship with the World Health Organization. Read more…
Previewing HIMSS 2023. In the latest edition of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, John Lynn and Colin Hung covered the biggest event in health IT, with a particular focus on what topics would be talked about at HIMSS that weren’t mentioned at ViVE. Read more… and check out our special edition of Bonus Features from HIMSS 2023, with news from Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, Surescripts, and many others.
Biggest Themes from HIMSS 2023. As John expected, workforce burnout and revenue management were two of the biggest topics at HIMSS 2023, at least in the first couple days – and unfortunately it sounded like attendees thought both issues might get worse before they got better. There was also a lot of buzz about ChatGPT and Large Language Models. Read more…
Data Quality Is a Journey, Not a Destination. To ensure that it’s sufficient for future needs, data must be continuously improved, audited, and refined, Colin learned from Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture. The interview also described the Data Quality Journey – a process with steps that can’t be skipped but can be done faster. Read more…
Why Intelligent Communication Is Key to Retaining Nursing Staff. Better communication creates a positive work culture, noted Jim Larrison at Firstup. Getting this right for nursing staff experiencing burnout means making sure information comes from trusted sources, meets them where they are, and helps so build a sense of community. Read more…
TEFCA Is Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange. TEFCA has been described as a network of networks. This interconnectedness means privacy and security should be top of mind in health information exchange, said Dave Cassel at Health Gorilla. Identity verification will be an important piece of this puzzle – with the added bonus of enabling patients to better manage their health records. Read more…
Optimizing HR and Redefining Care Delivery. Staff shortages and administrative waste put pressure on HR to improve efficiency without compromising patient outcomes. Ashish V. Shah at Dina described how applying supply chain management principles to staffing challenges can improve patient flows and staff utilization. Read more…
How Edge Technology is Revolutionizing Healthcare. As healthcare moves outside the four walls of the hospital, technology at the edge brings agility in operations as well as new and unique sources of data, according to Jeff Dymond and Steve Lazer at Dell Technologies. This can help organizations better deliver the right services to the right patients at the right time. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Marketing Specialist at Med Tech Solutions, a remote role posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for April 16, 2023: Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, and 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Medication engagement company Scene Health secured $17.7 million in Series B financing.
- Geospatial data analytics platform HSR.health received funding through the Disasters Pilot 2023, managed by a division of the U.S. Geological Survey, to support continued development of its GeoMD Platform.
- Virtual treatment room XRHealth merged with Amelia Virtual Care, a VR platform for mental health professionals. The new company will retain the name XRHealth.
- Risk-bearing provider enablement platform Vytalize Health acquired Independent Physician Association of New York.
- Olive AI sold its utilization management business unit to Availity, a real-time health information network.
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